Motherload Game Review – Casual Gaming You Can Dig
Coming to you from the depths of the XGen Studios vault is a casual browser game that burned through a LOT more time than I care to admit. It’s called Motherload, and it is indeed a motherload of fun gaming.
In Motherload, you play a miner on the surface of Mars, but you won’t be on the surface very long as you drive your mining buggy down into the Martian soil in search of vast mineral wealth. You can upgrade your buggy with better hull plating, faster drills, better engines, and a panoply of additional devices including reserve fuel tanks, teleportation systems, and explosives.
Playing Motherload is a lot like playing that old game Dig Dug, only without the enemies and with lots and lots of greed. Completionists will find this game like crack as they tunnel through the soil and snatch up every last crumb of rock from beneath the planet’s surface. The graphics are, of course, only inches from 16-bit fugly, but the gameplay is both fluid and compelling, giving you that just-one-more-level feeling until you finally reach the surprise at the end. And it will be quite the surprise.
Motherload is a fantastic little time-waster that’ll keep you occupied for hours until you finally reach the end, and when you do, you’ll likely leave satisfied, the best measure of a casual game.